FOSFF: Did any of the classic science fiction authors influence you?

问：有没有哪位传统科幻小说的作者影响了你？

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His Analytical Engine was never built, but it remained an inspiration to more than a century of computing pioneers - not to mention steampunk science fiction authors.

他的分析机没有成功，但它在往后的一个多世纪激励着的计算机先驱，更不用说蒸汽朋克科幻小说作家了。

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Many science fiction authors have postulated that superhuman artificial intelligence would in fact want us extinct, given that our species' behavior doesn't lend itself to sustainability.

考虑到我们人类的行为并不适合于可持续性，许多科幻小说家都想当然地认定超人类智能实际上会希望我们人类灭绝。

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But it isn't likely that science fiction authors are going to envision future scientific breakthroughs or future technology accurately.

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This consequence as led to speculation by science fiction authors Joe Haldeman and Orson Scott Card that people could travel in spaceships at near-light speed for what to them would be only days or weeks, but would be centuries back on Earth.

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Editors at Poland's newly privatised publishing houses exaggerate, but only to make a valid point, when they say that the only Polish authors who are flourishing today are writers of science-fiction and fantasy novels, Andrzej Sapkowski, Marek Oramus and Rafal Ziemkiewicz prominent among them.

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